Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-18
MORGAN BLACK HAWK,
[Grifiin in Turf, Field and Farm.

lGriffin in Turf, Field and Farm
| am in receipt of the following letter
about Maryland horses, a sequel of the
interest that has been stirred up on the
subject from communications to this de-
partment:
CENTREvILLE, Queen Anne Co., Md.
l see in last issue the reply of A. r. T.
to an inquiry made by A. B. c., Stauffers,
Penn, in regard to Morgan Black Hawk,
and l see he has got them very much
mixed up. Now, l have been residing
here for IS years, and claim to know as
much of the horse history of this section
as any one residing here. The Morgan
Black Hawk that sired Tankerville was
brown bay horse of grand appearance,
who was brought to Maryland by a
Northern man named Williams. who
stood him at Baltimore. The Hon. Jas.
L. Earle, who was at that time 1S5O
president of our State Agricultural asso-
citation, saw him in Baltimore in the year
1857, and was so impressed with his APP
pearance that he sent to him a mare
which he had recently got from a Balti-
more horse dealer named S. Il. Lee. She
was handsome bobtailed bay, and rep
resented to be Hambetonian. In the
fall of 1858 she produced bay horse colt
of such fine form and appearance that a
company was at once formed here and
bought the old horse. He was kept here
for several years. he being then about 20
years old, when he was traded or sold to
parties in Delaware, where he died.
Tankervlle was kept here, but his stock
not recommending him highly, Mr.. Earle
traded him to Gov. Bowie for the gray
thoroughbred stallion Stonewall. who
died two or three years after being
brought here.
The Morgan Black Hawk that was
know as the Roe and Wyatt horse was a
black horse. They sold him to parties in
Delaware. Afterward, when his stock
commenced showing we'll here. J. A. Roe
went to Delaware and brought him back
and kept him two or three years. When
Delaware, one of his get, made record
of 2:2S, E. r. Cochran of Middletown,
came down here and took him back to
Delaware, where he died. Your cores
pendent gives him as sired by Felton's
Black Hawk. Now, FELTON, never owned
or travelled but one horse here, and that
was Ticonderoga, by Hills Vermont B.
Hawk. The horse that sired the Roe
horse was black horse brought here by
Houser, and was called Vermont. and
was a son of Hills B. II.
Wallace has Roe's horse'as by Vermont
B. Hawk, but he was bred as above
stated. and anyone doubling can commu-
nicate with j. b. Roe, who will give them
the facts as stated above. The horse
Moscow mentioned was sired and died
within mile of this town at the age of
33, owned by J. V. Coursey at the time.
He was brought from Canada. and as "a
four-year-old in 1856 made a record of
= :5G. which was considered fast at that
time for four-year-old he afterwards
made record of 2 :36 at Wilmington,
Del, and was kept there for a number of
years, when he was brought to Cecil
county, Maryland, and sired good deal
of stock in that and Kent county
among them Andy johnson, 2 "a, black
horse, and Towhead, = 1913; he also sired
the dam of Phil Dougherty, 2;26, and
Stonewall, :24t; also the sire Of May,
%. There are now two of his sons
standing in this neighborhood.
j. A. Ii.